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Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever
Published 16 January 2024 Comments Off on Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than everThe fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping
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Are the Houthis dragging us toward a global trade crisis?
Published 8 January 2024 Comments Off on Are the Houthis dragging us toward a global trade crisis?The attacks on Red Sea ships are having a dangerously outsized impact on the global economy
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The battle for the Arctic
Published 28 December 2023 Comments Off on The battle for the ArcticRussia, China and the West are scrambling for control over the frozen tundra
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The electric-car fantasy
Published 8 December 2023 Comments Off on The electric-car fantasyRishi Sunak’s green diktats are a recipe for disaster
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The Dutch revolt against Net Zero
Published 24 November 2023 Comments Off on The Dutch revolt against Net ZeroVoters have sent Frans Timmermans, the EU’s ‘climate pope’, packing
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British steelmaking won’t survive Net Zero
Published 14 November 2023 Comments Off on British steelmaking won’t survive Net ZeroThe transition to eco-friendly steel is already threatening thousands of livelihoods
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Why wind power won’t cut our energy bills
Published 1 November 2023 Comments Off on Why wind power won’t cut our energy billsIgnore the misinformation from the green lobby – Net Zero is a financial catastrophe
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Forecasting failure: A short history of the future
Published 30 July 2023 Comments Off on Forecasting failure: A short history of the futureWatch the video of James Woudhysen’s lecture on Forecasting at The Academy, 2023
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No 10 on #Shapps? 'Strong on media, sharp instincts, useful in the election'.
BUT former Army chief Richard Dannatt: Shapps “knows very little about defence”.
Since 2002, when BBC head Jon Birt was put i/c of rail futures, ignorance has been cool. Fab!http://on.ft.com/3PnJeuQ
A reminder that the brilliant British film written by the wonderful playwright Barrie Keefe and starring Bob Hopkins and Helen Mirren is on tonight @Film4 11.10 pm #BarrieKeeffe #HelenMirren #BobHoskins
Add EVs, heat pumps, and hydrogen electrolysers.
Good luck powering all of that with wind & solar.
Either you start building gas and nuclear power plants now, or we will once again bow to King Coal for the rescue.
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Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls